Tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly



July 26, 1949. A. J. STANLEY ET AL TAPE DISPENSER AND SUPPORTING BRACKET ASSEMBLY Filed Sept. 23, 1946 Patented July 26, 1949 TAPE DISPENSER AND SUPPORTING BRACKET ASSEMBLY Alexander J. Stanley, New Brunswick, and Lawrence E. Barnes, North Plainfield, N. J., assignors to Industrial Tape Corporation, a corporation of New Jersey Application September 23, 1946, Serial No. 698,656

6 Claims.

This invention relates to a tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly in which a dispensing device containing a roll of tape, such as a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, is attached to a vertical support for convenience in unwinding and severing a desired length of tape from the roll.

The tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly comprises an improved dispenser supporting bracket which enables a dispenser containing a spent roll of tape readily to be replaced with a dispenser containing a new roll of tape and a special attachment for connecting the sup porting bracket to any type of vertical support, thus lending utility to the tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly in many different environments. The assembly is compact and may be economically constructed with standard machinery from cheap and readily available materials. 1

Referring to the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a supporting bracket and attachment made in accordance with the invention and which forms part of the improved ensemble;

Fig. 2 is a fore-and-aft vertical section through a tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly, a dispensing unit being shown in operative position on a bracket of the type illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view at line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, the improved tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly includes a dispenser [0 designed to hold a roll of tape, a supporting bracket II, and an attachment l2 for securing the supporting bracket to a vertical support. All such elements may, with facility, be blanked out of sheet metal and bent to form. a

The supporting bracket l l includes in part, two vertical parallel side members [4, a downwardly and forwardly inclined flat top member l5, and a front member l5a, the top and front members being connected to the side members along their edges. The bracket is stamped out at the top to present a pair of opposed ears [6 and I1, located onev adjacent the front and the other adjacent the rear of the bracket. The front ear is formed by cutting out a substantially rectangular portion along three sides only. The fourth side of the rectangle, which 'isparallel with and nearest the frontedge of the bracket, is uncut so that the ear remains as an integral part of the bracket. The ear I6 is bent upwardly and then rearwardly so that its major portion is parallel with the top member l5 of the bracket and spaced therefrom a distance suflicient to permit the insertion therebelow of a part of the dispenser In in a manner hereinafter described.

The ear H at the rear of the bracket is cut or stamped out from the top of the bracket in the same way as the ear 16 at the front, except that it is substantially larger than the front ear and is connected with the bracket at its rear. The ear l1 likewise is bent upwardly but then forwardly to prevent a portion which is parallel with the top surface of the bracket but this portion is spaced a substantially greater distance from the top surface l5 than is the corresponding portion of the front ear IS. The ear I! likewise is-arranged to permit the insertion thereunder of a part of the dispenser I0 and the reason for its greater spacing from the top surface of the bracket will presently appear.

The bracket I I may be secured on any vertical support by the attachment I2. This attachment is in the form of a rectangular plate made from sheet stock and is flat over substantially its entire body portion. Preferably, it is provided with a plurality of holes to accommodate screws or nails I8 by which it may be secured to a support.

The plate attachment [2 is reversely bent along its vertical edges to present opposed grooves l9 adapted to accommodate tongues or flanges 20 presented at the lateral rear edges of the bracket II and which may be formed by bending the stock of the side walls of the bracket outwardly at right angles thereto. The bracket is secured to the attachment by inserting the lower ends of the flanges 20 into the upper ends of the grooves l9 presented by the attachment and then sliding the flanges endwise downwardly until their movement is arrested by banking against a pair of I stops 2| located near the bottom of the attaching plate. There is a stop at each side of the plate in line with the path of travel of the flanges on the bracket. The stops may be of any suitable character, preferably protrusions which are struck up from the face of the attachment plate.

To lend rigidity to the bracket structure and prevent the side walls thereof, which otherwise are unsupported, from being distorted inwardly, there is provided a pair of lugs 22 partially cut out from the plate and bent forwardly into a position to engage the inner faces of the bracket side walls I4, near the lower edges thereof when the bracket is in its lowermost position as determined by the banking stops 2 I.

The dispenser I0 is of a well known standard type. The specific one selected for purposes of illustration is formed with spaced parallel vertical side members 23, connected together at the front and at the rear by members 24 and 25.} The side members 23 extend upwardly at the rear to form relatively large ears 26 -hetwee :WhiQ

there is rotatably disposed a roll of pressure-Q sensitive adhesive tape 21. r

7 member 28. The forward movement of the dis- 7 The dispenser also includes a bottom member; ,4

28 formed by bending extensions of the, side wall; members inwardly at right angles thereto; These;

bent in portions of the bottom member terminate flanges 29, whose opposed faces. {are in hon-tact and serve to prevent the side members fromibeing distorted inwardly and thus binding the roll of tape 21 against rotation.

The bottom member but terminates short of the front wall member ll zs sth t ihe ehse d front wall membe and heihettem memb r, therev s pr sented a Slot 3.0-

penser is continued until it is arrested, in this case by theengagement of the front end of its bottom flanges 29 with the rear edge of the ear This constitutes the operative position of the di penser on the bracket. 11}. its operative hesition h ld. firm'ht displacement away from the bracket when the tape is unwound from the roll by pulling on the leading end'there 9i, lt will b e r 1 oticed that the top surface 15 of the gbracketslopes downwardly toward the convenient for grasping and severing a length 28 extends forwardly somewhat beyond the front ends of flanges-29" hiehientends al ha he i ent l w r ed e he;

s en er tier; sub tantia l its en ire Wi th- There is a standard 3| at the iiront of theldispehs r extends upwardly o e fron wil membe r214:- This s an ard s for t oe mm rward y ext hdih t o m 32 which eammates e feerse r te dge 33. When he -1 di pe se te: enga es a. s ee h heeththe p in e s en between the s ndards and. the ea s] 26 wh eh 2535 51 199 3 h rel-19f ta erlii -t e tape; 01?: theletiesm 32... e as sch th d i e le th nd: thensever he. tape byrd ew he t ac s readi ess for s the tape 51, t am-the ol and by virtu he hnife 33.; n't e e91 hf evering t d portion of the a e remaining. o the ro l ed-S 925591 9 theinle fermaahd e ve to eneher-th ane slur is. the s ver n reneratio a d;;a .o t

upperhsa ehd rtiohrready fort -nex se e r s-deherat phr in she tin theiassemh y t e. b tom of the spense Ibis p aeedohthe bracket II with it ottem sur ace heibraclretiahdinsubstantial fore-and-af ;ien-

mentz he ewith. Th di penser i then moved rearwardly so (that the rear ,ear 5| :1' on the bracket ssumes-apositiqhbe w enthe parallel side. wall f :t eidispen er and in overlying enga ement ith :a deck member 14 formed by bending the top-portion of :the rear member 25v forwardly. In this connection, mention should :be made of, .v

the-facts that the. spacing of the forwardly .ex-

tending portionof lth'e car 11' above the .top surface of, the :bpacket should :be such as to engage the portion of the dispenser underlying it with a fairlygtight fit; Consequently, thisspacing will be determinedzbythe :height .above the .base of the particular part ,of' the dispenser that the cards adapted to engage. in this instance, .of vcourse,

it the :height of the :deck member 34 at the rearof the dispenser although the: spacing would 5 have to be aried for-dispensers having :a some what-different configurationat the corresponding location.

The dispenser is moved; rearwardly along :the.

top surface of the bracket until :the front edge of etheudispenser ibottom member, iigllaclears. the

front ear Ali/on the sbracket. Then the dispenser is-rnoved .forwardly, causing the ear 16 .to enter dissent the p member 15 0f front so that the dispenser, when assembled gthenegn; gis pn eniedgat an angle which is most of tape.

is to beunderstood, of course, that when 1 the roll of, tape in the; dispenser has been spent, the dispenser may be replaced byone containing ,a tresharoll. To removeithe dispenser with the spent roll, it is necessary onlyrto reverse the RQ Zh 'iQKIS; tha are. used in essemhlhis. he,;d

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hand only in dispensing tape.

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r subverting-the dis-e I the direction of pull of the tape as it is removed from the dispenser, and to permit said dispenser to be moved along the platform to an inoperative position clear of one of said ears to permit its displacement away from said platform and out of underlying engagement with the other of said ears, and means for securing the platform to a vertical support.

3. A tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly comprising an adhesive tape dispenser and a wall type bracket unit for supporting the dispenser in a position to facilitate removal of tape from the contained roll by pulling on the leading end of the tape, said wall bracket unit comprising a platform member for supporting the dispenser, anchoring means associated with the platform, constructed and arranged to hold the dispenser in operative position against movement in the direction of pull on the tape as it is removed from the dispenser and to permit movement of the dispenser to an inoperative position clear of said anchoring means to facilitate its removal from the platform, and a device for securing the bracket unit to a vertical support including a pair of opposed grooves to accommodate tongues presented by the bracket unit, and means on said device cooperating with the tongues to locate the tongues in a given position in said grooves.

4. A tape dispenser and supporting bracket assembly comprising an adhesive tape dispenser and a wall type bracket unit for supporting the dispenser in a position to facilitate the removal of tape from the contained roll by pulling on the leading end of the tape, said wall bracket unit comprising a pair of parallel side walls connected by a platform member for supporting the dispenser, anchoring means associated with the platform, constructed and arranged to hold the dispenser in operative position against movement in the direction of pull on the tape as it is removed from the dispenser and to permit movement of the dispenser to an inoperative position clear of said anchoring means to facilitate its removal from the platform, and a device for securing the bracket unit to a vertical support including a pair of opposed grooves to accommodate a pair of tongues presented by the side wall members of the bracket unit, and means on said device arranged to engage the side walls of the bracket unit when the latter is in its normal position in said device for holding said wall members against movement toward each other.

5. A wall type bracket for supporting an adhesive tape dispenser in a position to facilitate removal of the tape from a roll contained in the dispenser by pulling on the leading end of the tape, and which is adapted to be mounted on a vertical support presenting opposed grooves, said wall bracket comprising a sloping platform member for supporting the dispenser, a pair of opposed ears struck up, one at the higher end of the platform for engaging the dispenser at its rear end and one at the lower end of the platform for engaging the dispenser at its front end, to hold the dispenser against displacement in the direction of pull of the tape as it is removed from the dispenser when the dispenser is located in its operative position on the platform, lateral wall members for supporting the sloping platform and flanges presented by the wall members at the ends thereof corresponding to the higher end of the platform for engaging the opposed grooves in the vertical support to hold the bracket in its operative position.

6. A wall type bracket for supporting an adhesive dispenser in a position to facilitate removal of the tape from a roll contained in the dispenser by pulling on the leading end of the tape, and which is adapted to be mounted on a vertical support presenting opposed grooves, said wall bracket comprising a sloping platform member for supporting the dispenser, a pair of opposed ears struck up, one at the higher end of the platform for engaging the dispenser at its rear end, and one at the lower end of the platform for engaging the dispenser at its front end, to hold the dispenser against displacement in the direction of pull on the tape as it is removed from the dispenser when the dispenser is located in its operative position on the platform, lateral wall members for supporting the sloping platform, flanges presented by the wall members at the ends thereof corresponding to the higher end of the platform for engaging the opposed grooves in the vertical support to hold the bracket in its operative position and abutments presented by the vertical support in a position to engage the inner opposed faces of the lateral wall members to assist in retaining the flanges thereon in engagement in the opposed grooves of the vertical support. I

ALEXANDER. J. STANLEY. LAWRENCE E. BARNES.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Spencer Aug. 22, 1939 Ewan Sept. 19, 1939 Alliss Mar. 10, 1942 Vaughan et al Jan. 19, 1943 Number Certificate of Correction Patent No. 2,477,014 July 26, 1949 ALEXANDER J. STANLEY ET AL. It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows:

Column 2, line 12, for the word prevent read present;

and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the some may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 13th day of December, A. D. 1949.

THOMAS F. MURPHY,

Assistant Oommz'ssioner of Patents. 

